Still, as I pulled on the insulated time-diving uniform -- the material represented another theft from some out-system by Kerina -- I knew I had to try the chance of backtracking the Frost Giants, if only to find out where they had come from before Odin Thor did.

His build ruled him out as a Corpus Corps type, which meant he was either an intelligence operative for some out-system government, for an out-of-the-way Imperial bureaucracy, or a private operative contracted to find Gerswin.